BASIS DC shut down/abolished the school list serve
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All I know is every parent I have talked to so far this year which is quite a few are happy with BASIS. They feel it is even better this year.
As for the naysayer frantically worrying about not filling all spots, do you really think BASIS schools have not dealt with any hiccups at all in well over decade of operation?? I am not concerned since so far BASIS is delivering in their promise of an array of challenging courses and AP courses. |
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That we weren't the only ones to not take a spot. That older kids left the school too. That the head of school has issues (though I suspected this on our tour). That giving up $250k caught a lot of families off guard. That we made the right decision. |
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I am glad you feel good about your decision and I'm glad that people have choices, including BASIS which is a good fit for many kids. |
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Totally feel great, thank you. Dodging a bullet is an amazing feeling. |
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Since you are debating things that can be resolved by documentary evidence, I will do some searching of my own now that you have provoked me, and we can continue to fight about it. Is that what you want? You cannot make these assertions and then tell everyone to drop it. A simple word search may reveal that people responded to those emails and they were repeated that way. A simple word search will not reveal that everyone's poor inboxes were "flooded" by her "crazy emails." On DCUM, unlike the list serve, no one is entitled to the last word, especially when their words are full of specious statements. So you pick a fight and you are also still missing the point. [b]Settled how? By telling us we left 25 seats open in the 6th grade? [b] That was in the final newsletter on the issue. The one on September 12th said "we have identified a few open spots in the 6th grade." Arguing about whether "a few = 25" is pointless now, but making that argument is patently absurd. Why get on a high horse when the evidence is there for all to see? I have no idea who Jeff Jacobs is but I bet dollars to donuts the 6 dates he listed were dates when we got notice there were spaces, not how many. Dead horse, thoroughly beaten, he is wrong if that was his assertion, whoever he is. If you really care, go look it up yourself instead of relying on someone I have never heard of to list dates for you, unless he quoted the statements in the actual documents. Did he? Of course not. Because no such statements were made 6 times and you did not read the original statements and then relied on someone else's very easily refuted assertion. And responsible parents like me did all they could upon hearing that there were ANY spaces, which means this kind of error has no quick fix in the fall whether it is "a few" or "25," once children are enrolled elsewhere. More importantly Admitting that we have 25 open seats in 6th settles nothing, but gives rise to a very simple question: how did it happen and what are we going to do to prevent it from happening this year? And that question has not been answered yet by anyone in the administration. We had a waiting list for 6th, over 40 kids at one point. Somewhere after the lottery the waiting list was not managed correctly or 25 students who were on it would presently be in our 6th grade. That is what they budgeted for, that is how they allocated the teachers, which is probably why they could not just add on another section of 5th graders at the beginning of the year, which would have I think filled up quickly. But these are all questions that logically flow from his statement. And though the issue was brought up at the last coffee hour, it was brought up by your "crazy lady" as part of her "I am concerned about our school" speech which mostly had to do with treating students with the respect that they deserve, so that they will come, so that they will stay, so that they will not leave (citing the candy incident). You may not remember, but she stood up twice. She also separately brought up the issue of the difficulty some students and parents had gaining access to comps they needed to retake over the summer and the possibility of having a summer school along with the STARS and ANTERES programs, which Mr. Aiken said they were already seriously considering. So your "whacking job" is raising issues on behalf of students who had problems over the summer, and proposing things the admin is already thinking about that I bet were not on YOUR radar screen or in your pretty little empty head. I would think carefully before you continue with your defamatory descriptions of her overall behavior or psychological state. As another parent said, enough is enough with just going on and on about how crazy she is. I see no evidence of her craziness in her behavior at the coffee hour or in her emails. No one forced you fools to read them after all. And obviously you didn't, the same way you didn't read the 6 notices which did not say 25 spots 6 times. I didn't get a whiff of crazy in them. I did, in the last one, get a strong sense of outrage about the way the students in 8La were treated by the Dean, and why the HOS and Dean had not gone in to apologize for [b]his crazy behavior. And again, when those two finally made an appearance in 8La, all they did was tell the kids their grades were not in danger. [/b]No apology for the Dean screaming "you mess with her stuff, I'll mess with your grades" where his carrying ons made them late to their subsequent class and made them worried for the grades until the person who made the threat actually came into the class and the HOS retracted it. No explanation that this would never happen at Basis.[b] Maybe she was onto something both at the coffee hour and the craziness in 8La? Maybe if you read her emails they were not mostly about her FB page, being a Luddite (I assume that means not computer savvy). All of you should shut up now and if the adults here want to discuss the shutting down of the list serve or anything else since we no longer have a list serve, let them. But stop embarrassing yourselves by trying to humiliate this lady. All you are doing is disgracing our school. At least she had the decency to keep it on the list serve and not on DCUM. So far I do not see you doing Basis the same courtesy. And I feel an obligation now to go back, find Jacobs, check the statements, check the emails etc. Because of your patently false assertions. What a fucking waste of time. But since this concerns someone about whom I care, I will fucking do it. If you really wanted this dropped like the others who genuinely want this dropped you just would have just said "drop it." Not the add ons about being sent 6 notices of 25 spaces or that there were more than three emails. You want to have your cake and eat it too. Guess what, not on DCUM. So "drop it" with the unjustified little speech you saw fit to make by no means means drop it, 3rd crazy lady (at least ) |
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hey private school parent (who comes here to reassure herself that she is not missing out), in our 2nd year we had the highest DC CAS scores except for Deal, and we barely did any test prep Proving that educated white wealthy parents do not do the only trick in town.......... And that whatever the differences are between here and AZ, we just beat Washington Latin again in the Certamen competition and will go on to compete at Yale (our other 7th grade team won 2nd place but you only get to send one team from each school, sadly........ We beat Washington Latin on the DC CAS last year (our first year, they were second and we were third) And yes it is a somewhat rough and tumble environment, but that is a learning experience for all involved Signed, parents who have a PhD and a JD between them, both Ivy League undergraduates who are absolutely positive our kids will get into better colleges and universities than the idiot poster who does not know that you "rent" garments, the 'renting' of garments, not the "rending." |
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Again, if you're going by what's been posted here on DCUM, it's probably no better than making a decision based on a Yelp posting with an angry review about not finding tacos on the menu at a Tapas bar, not understanding it's Spanish, not Mexican - and that tacos aren't a Spanish thing. But, to each his own. Aside from the two or three people here, there are hundreds of happy and satisfied BASIS DC families. |
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What do you think these people are supposed to say? We realize we just lost $250k because of a major screw up by the HOS? As someone pointed out, that ultimately translates into a cool million. No. They are not concerned. What is their alternative spiel? But PLEASE give everyone money for the teacher retention fund, because we now have so many fewer students who might be stupid enough to hand over their money when they have no idea how it is spent.... |
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I am pretty surprised that you contine to post. After saying it is so great people have a choice you continue to put down their choice. Really, it is great that you are at BASIS and great we aren't. We dodged a massive bullet. You and the previous crazy posters just reaffirm our decision for our child. Perhaps sending your child to BASIS everyday reaffirms yours. Unclench BASIS parent. There is no parent in their right mind who wouldn't be a bit put off by this thread. I only followed because I did wonder. Now I don't. Not at all. |
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It's not "a million" nor etched into stone. They can add students, they can make it up next year, et cetera, et cetera.
And, just to point out.... They know what their numbers are, they know what their financials are, they know what their model is. They've been doing this for 20 years, they've successfully started and run at least a half dozen schools, I believe that's far more than anyone here on this thread ever has or ever will, I tend to think they know a thing or two more about how all of this works than any of us here does. This is what they do. And accordingly, if they aren't concerned, then neither am I. But of course, if anyone here is so brilliant and has such deeper insights into how schools can and should be run, then I wonder why that person isn't out there starting and running an even better school than BASIS. Submit a charter document to the PCSB. |
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Nope, nothing "clenched" and no need to "reaffirm" anything - as a matter of fact, we have been with BASIS going on our third year now. We've had our opportunities to look at other schools, but we continue to choose BASIS, and we have no regrets. You say you are "put off" - by me? I only said, don't be "put off" by the two or three rabid posters here when the remaining hundreds of families are content. I'm merely putting it in proper perspective - and that's certainly not something that should be "off-putting" whether in one's right or wrong mind. |
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This thread? Condense it all down, and it's really just the same 2 or 3 ranters, repeating the same 2 or 3 things over and over again - they could have gotten a few more 6th graders, a hothead remark around a bag of candy, yadda yadda. Big whoop. Most other public schools and charters in DC would LOVE to have their problems be as trivial as that.
Consider that DCUM is an echo chamber. It's not really reflective of the real world. Out here in the real world, there are hundreds of committed and content BASIS families, hundreds of calm, rational parents, and hundreds of happy kids - which for me, offsets this tempest-in-a-teapot just fine, but for anyone else, if DCUM is all you know and rely on, then you've done yourself a disservice. |
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NP here, and not a Basis parent so I'm not invested in your outcome here. You people ignore the frustrated parent above at your own peril. The UPSFF (per-pupil funding formula) indicates that your school lost out on about a quarter of a million dollars by not filling those 25 seats. And that's just THIS YEAR. You can't back-fill them, so now your loss is compounded to $250K per year for that class all the way through HS. Wow - somebody should be fired for that kind of fiscal malpractice. DCI just opened, doesn't have their permanent facility, and is already eating your lunch. You need to get on the ball and address your problems, quickly. Shutting down and/or berating the one person who is actually trying to force the school and its sycophants to face the music will be your downfall. This. You said it all, you said it well, and you revealed the depths of their idiocy in economic terms. BOOSTERS doing a good imitation of Ostriches are about my least favorite parents....... second only to those on the BOOSTERS Board |